Police turn mapmakers to count CCTV cameras

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They are used to walking the beat to deter crime but the police may soon be asked to cover every nook and cranny of their patch — to locate and record the presence of every CCTV camera.

Senior officers want several forces to count the cameras in an attempt to provide an accurate figure of the number across the entire country.

The exercise comes amid claims that the proliferation of CCTV cameras is turning Britain into a surveillance society. Yet it has emerged that one of the figures most frequently used to justify the claim — that there are 4.2